Combined thimble and cutter



March 29, 1955 G. D. DELINANOS COMBINED THIMBLE AND CUTTER Filed July15, 1951 George D. De/inanas INVENTOR.

akin way fiM United States Patent COMBINED THIMBLE AND CUTTER George D.Delinanos, Port Washington, N. Y.

Application July 13, 1951, Serial No. 236,666

1 Claim. (Cl. 30-298) This invention relates to new and usefulimprovements and structural refinements in thimbles, and the principalobject of the invention is to combine a conventional thimble with acutter whereby thread, or the like may be quickly, easily andexpeditiously severed without resorting to the use of scissors.

An important feature of the invention resides in the particular mountingof the cutter upon the thimble, while some of the advantages of theinvention lie in its simplicity of construction, in its efficient andexpeditious opcration, and in its adaptability to economicalmanufacture.

With the above more important objects and features in view and suchother objects and features as may become apparent as this specificationproceeds, the invention consists of the construction and arrangement ofparts as shown in the drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof, taken substantially inthe plane of the line 22 in Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a group perspective view of the same,

Figure 4 is an inside perspective view of the cutter shown in Figure 3,

Figure 5 is a side elevational view, partially broken away, of amodified embodiment of the invention,

Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view, taken substantially in the planeof the line 6-6 in Figure 5, and

Figure 7 is an inside perspective view of the cutter used in theembodiment of Figures 5 and 6.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts in thespecification and throughout the several vlews.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, more particularlyto Figures 1-4 inclusive, the general reference character 10 designatesa conventional thimble which, in this instance, has a side wall 12 andan open bottom 14, the side Wall 12 being provided adjacent the bottomedge thereof with a boss 16.

The boss 16 has a flat edge 18 and is formed with a screw-threaded bore20, while a cutter member 22, provided with an enlarged head 24, ispositioned on the ice boss 16 and secured therein with a single screw 26which extends into the bore 20.

The cutter member 22 also has a cutting edge 28 which is spaced awayfrom the side wall 14 of the thimble 10 so that a thread may be insertedtherebetween for severing, as will be clearly apparent. Moreover, it isto be noted that the enlarged head portion 24 of the cutter member 22 isprovided with a fiat shoulder 30 which abuts the fiat edge or shoulder18 of the boss 16, whereby the entire cutter member 22 is prevented fromrotating on the screw 26 and the single screw 26 is fully suflicient tosustain the cutter in position.

In the modified embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 5-7inclusive, the thimble 50 is provided with a round boss 52 which isrotatably accommodated in the circular recess 54 of the cutter member56, While a single screw 58 serves to secure the cutter member inposition. However, since the boss 52 is rotatable in the recess 54, thecutter member 56 may be rotated about the screw 58, in other words, thecutter member may be swung from one side to the other, relative to thethimble 50, to expose the cutting edge 60 of the cutter member 56 whenso desired.

It is believed that the advantages and use of the invention will beclearly understood from the foregoing disclosure and accordingly,further description thereof at this point is deemed unnecessary.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In combination, a finger encircling member including a side wall fittingaround the finger, an external boss on said member, a cutter memberhaving an enlarged head opposed to the outer side of said boss, and acutting blade on said head disposed outwardly of said encircling memberin a plane radial to said encircling member, a single screw securing thehead to the boss, and shoulders on said boss and head extendingcircumferentially of said encircling member and co-engaging to preventthe head from turning on the single screw, the shoulder on said headbeing undercut to overlap the shoulder on the boss so that said head isengaged with the side wall to space the cutting blade close to the sidewall.

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